Climbing the Peach Palm

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Pennsylvania State University

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Shows a young Yanomamo Indian man using an ingenious climbing frame to collect the fruit of the rasha tree. Illustrates how this device made of crossed sticks allows him to climb the tree and avoid its sharp spines. Observes the young man as he picks the fruit, lowers it by vines, and then climbs down the tree.

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